New Bedford

by Anthony Sammarco, Paul Buchanan

Overview

In 1765, when Joseph Rotch sailed across the bay from Nantucket, he brought with him the skills and knowledge to start New Bedford's whaling industry. By 1830 the town was a larger whaling port than Nantucket, with an immense fleet employing more than 10,000 people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738512853
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	07/17/2003
Series:	Images of America Series
Edition description:	2003 Reissue
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,030,633
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Massachusetts historians and authors Anthony Sammarco and Paul Buchanan worked together with the New Bedford Free Public Library - which donated all of the images in this collection - to immortalize the remarkable history of this colorful town.